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Diversifying revenue in rural Africa through circular, sustainable and replicable bio-based solutions and business models

Descripción del proyecto

Apoyo para el desarrollo de la bioeconomía en el África rural

Dado que, en el 2050, África tendrá que alimentar a 2 000 millones de personas, la bioeconomía del país debe tener un papel destacado en la salvaguardia de la seguridad alimentaria. El proyecto BIO4AFRICA, financiado con fondos europeos, abordará este reto, facilitando el crecimiento de la bioeconomía en el África rural a través del desarrollo de cadenas de valor y soluciones circulares de origen biológico para fomentar el uso de recursos locales y diversificar los ingresos de los agricultores. La iniciativa se centrará en transferir tecnologías de origen biológico robustas, sencillas y a pequeña escala, adaptadas a la biomasa, las necesidades y los contextos locales. El objetivo es empoderar a los agricultores locales para que produzcan de forma sostenible una gama de productos y energía de mayor valor y origen biológico, mejorando así significativamente la rentabilidad social, económica y medioambiental de sus sistemas agroalimentarios y de forraje.

Objetivo

Africa will need to feed over 2 billion people by 2050 while coping with unprecedented demographic, socio-economic, environmental, climatic and health transitions. Meanwhile, undernourishment is still on the rise, affecting almost 20% of its population now. Under this light, ensuring Africa’s food security becomes imperative, with the bioeconomy posed to play a leading role to this end. It is against this backdrop that BIO4AFRICA sets off to support the deployment of the bioeconomy in rural Africa via the development of bio-based solutions and value chains with a circular approach to drive the cascading use of local resources and diversify the income of farmers. Our focus is on transferring simple, small-scale and robust bio-based technologies adapted to local biomass, needs and contexts (green biorefinery, pyrolysis, hydrothermal carbonisation, briquetting, pelletising, bio-composites and bioplastics production). In doing so we aim at empowering farmers to sustainably produce a variety of higher value bio-based products and energy (animal feed, fertiliser, pollutant absorbents, construction materials, packaging, solid fuel for cooking and catalysts for biogas production), significantly improving the environmental, economic and social performance of their forage agri-food systems. To this end, we have set up 4 pilot cases with over 8 testing sites in Uganda, Ghana, Senegal and Ivory Coast, offering more than 300 farmers and farmer groups of all sizes (incl. small dairy and lower-income farmers, women farmer groups and transhumant pastoralists among others) the opportunity to test them in real productive conditions. Along the way, our balanced mix of 13 African and 12 EU partners will engage in solid multi-actor collaboration with rural communities and government, co-developing novel sustainable value chains driven by circular business models and supporting deployment in other areas, all while safeguarding agronomic, environmental, social and economic sustainability.

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RIA - Research and Innovation action

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(se abrirá en una nueva ventana) H2020-SFS-2018-2020

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Coordinador

CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LEDEVELOPPEMENT - C.I.R.A.D. EPIC
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 478 975,00
Coste total
€ 1 478 975,00

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